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AB7 Editorial · Issue 186
Lessons from 300+ live deployments — hiring playbooks, vetting frameworks, cost models and the unfiltered reality of distributed work.
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Building a team in-house vs outsourcing to India in 2026 — the real trade-offs of cost, speed, control and scalability — and a simple framework for deciding which work to keep and which to send offshore.…
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Offshore BPOStaff augmentation vs managed project vs BPO when outsourcing to India in 2026 — how each model splits control and accountability, when each fits, and
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RecruitmentA week-by-week plan for onboarding an offshore India team in the first 30 days of 2026 — access, context, a first deliverable and cadence — so the tea
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Digital & DevelopmentThe tools and rituals that keep an offshore India software project on track in 2026 — standups, written status, pull-request review, CI, sprint cadenc
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